Talking about healthy eating on Facebook and getting paid to do it, the department said, could trigger a $1,000 fine and up to six months in jail for unlicensed practice…
(A little snow-day headline humor. OK, granted, a very little.) My newsletter today discusses the case against occupational licensing and the conclusions of two long-running disputes over actions by occupational…
The Institute for Justice takes a look at newspaper censorship where the Kentucky attorney general is going after syndicated columnist John Rosemond for, well, giving advice in his parenting advice…
Carolina Journal’s Sara Burrows provides us with this full report on the Court of Appeals ruling that is a huge win for North Carolina diet blogger Steve Cooksey, and a…
As readers of this blog or Carolina Journal will know, there’s been a long running dispute between blogger Steve Cooksey and the North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition. The Board claimed…
Carolina Journal readers are familiar with North Carolina diet blogger Steve Cooksey, whose online diet advice has been the target of the North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition. The board claims he…
Sara Burrows reports for Carolina Journal Online that “Paleo-diet” blogger Steve Cooksey is not the only one targeted by the N.C. Board of Nutrition/Dietetics for “practicing nutrition” without a license.…
Sara Burrows provides an update today on the incredible power held by the North Carolina Board of Nutrition/Dietetics, which goes after North Carolinians who give specific nutrition advice to people with…
My colleague at the John Locke Foundation, Jon Sanders, has an excellent article in his current “Rights & Regulation” newsletter titled “Guild By Association.” He quotes the inimitable Milton Friedman…
View in your browser. "The overthrow of the medieval guild system," wrote Milton Friedman in his seminal work Capitalism and Freedom, was an indispensable early step in the rise of…
Sara Burrows reports for Carolina Journal Online that a court has dismissed Paleo diet blogger Steve Cooksey’s lawsuit against the N.C. state agency accused of censoring his work.
The ‘newspaper of record’ is only four months late, but today’s New York Times carries a story about Charlotte blogger Steve Cooksey’s battle with the North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition…